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The Art of Learning: Fractals, Water Polo and Marketing Templates

We do not learn from experience, but from reflecting on the experience.” - John Dewey Josh Waitzkin has a fascinating story.

The Art of Learning: Fractals, Water Polo and Marketing Templates

The 5 Temptations (and remedies) of a CEO

In the vein of Marshall Goldsmith’s “What got you here, won’t get you there”, The 5 Temptations of a CEO, forced me to take a look in the mirror. Result = opportunity to improve!

The 5 Temptations (and remedies) of a CEO

20 Habits That Won't Get You There

I've just finished Marshall Goldsmith's great book: "What got you here, won't get you there - How successful people become even more successful". What is the book about? My one sentence answer is: It is about removing your personal obstacles to further magnify your strengths.

20 Habits That Won't Get You There

Why Do We Exist as a Business?

It’s an existential question I asked myself after reading Ben Horowitz’s blog post: Lead bullets. Fortunately I was reading Ron Baker’s book Implementing Value Pricing at the time.

Why Do We Exist as a Business?

You Can't Eat On Facebook - 3 Timeless Fundamentals from Never Eat Alone

You know it's a good book when you dog ear the last page. That's what I did with Never Eat Alone, by Keith Ferrazzi. I did it for this quote: ...you can't do it alone. We are all in this together. It's a book about the power of relationships. It's a book of advice and practical tips for starting,

You Can't Eat On Facebook - 3 Timeless Fundamentals from Never Eat Alone

Be grateful. Life's a Black Swan.

What is a Black Swan? A Black Swan has 3 attributes: First it is an outlier, as it lies outside the realm of regular expectations, because nothing in the past can convincingly point to its possibility. Second, it carries an extreme impact. Third, in spite of its outlier status, human nature makes u

Be grateful. Life's a Black Swan.

Humanising – the real value of Real Time

"Our people are our greatest asset." "Our differentiator is our relationships." "Product X is great but it’s our people and our culture that really makes the difference." "Our competitors could walk into this place and look around. They can even copy everything we do, but they can’t copy our cult

Humanising – the real value of Real Time

88 Tips For Business - Rework Reworked (a reminder list)

Rework is a string of 88 short essays by Jason Fried and David Heinmeier Hansson - the founders of 37signals.com (we are big fans of their products Highrise, Basecamp, Campfire and Backpack at Bluewire Media). It's a gem, so I thought I'd write a one line summary of the 88 to remind me.

88 Tips For Business - Rework Reworked (a reminder list)

Is this the first ever example of crowd-sourcing?

Twelve mighty volumes; 414,825 words defined; 1,827,306 illustrative quotations used... The total length of type - all handset, for the books were done by letterpress, still discernible in the delicately impressed feel of the inked-on paper - is 178 miles, the distance between London and the outskir

Is this the first ever example of crowd-sourcing?

Heretics + Followers - Blind Sheep = Obligation

In Seth’s words: A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader and connected to an idea.

Heretics + Followers - Blind Sheep = Obligation

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